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New PC

by Mike Baker
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I thought I would share the specs of my new pc which I will be building within the next week or so as I have noticed a few people interested in computer technology on here.

I am going to be buying a few new components and bringing across some of my other components from my old PC.

Here's the list of components that are from my old PC that I will continue to use in my new system:

HDD: 2x Western Digital 500GB 7,200rpm drives
DVD R/W: Pioneer 24x DVD Burner drive
Video Card: ATI RADEON HD4650 1GB GDDR5
Monitor: 20" Dell LCD
Keyboard: Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
Mouse: Logitech MX Revolution

New parts:

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth P67
CPU: INTEL CORE i7 2600K 3.40Ghz
MEMORY: CORSAIR VENGEANCE (8 Gig) 4gig x 2 DDR3 1600mhz Matched Pair
PSU: CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold 800W
CPU COOLER: CoolerMaster V6GT
CASE: CoolerMaster HAF-X
  • Profile picture of the author TPFLegionaire
    Hi,

    This is a seriously nice piece of kit you are putting together.

    I was just wondering if you had any reasons not to put in an SSD drive for your operating system and maybe a 1TB drive for storage ( or your 2 500 in Raid configuration for safety).

    Your choice of storage is the only thing that could be boosted...I think


    Do you do any gaming on this ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Baker
    I really wanted to put in an SSD drive but my budget simply wouldn't allow it. It is something I will definitely be looking at doing in the near future as well as a water cooling kit.

    I don't do a lot of gaming, but when I do the HD4650 has been good to me with games like Crysis. It has also been great during a lot of Photoshop and After Effects work, but I really want to put in twin cards next time for a Cross Fire or SLI setup.

    I also plan on overclocking the 2600K as close to 5GB as possible, maybe even over it. I had my previous system which was a Intel Core Quad Q6600 2.6GHz on an ASUS P5Q Pro with 6GB of Kingston 1066MHz memory overclocked to 3.2GHz.
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  • Profile picture of the author TPFLegionaire
    What you say make perfect sense....a powerful processor and lots of memory should make short work of proper work like photoshop

    And when budget allow , you know that you will be very pleased at the speed jump the SSD will provide.

    Graphic cards will stand you in good stead even, I would hazard , with something like Battlefield 3

    My next PC will be build around BF3 and Diablo 3 requirements in mind
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    • Profile picture of the author QuickSurf
      SSD's have been coming down in price a lot.... remember how much they were going for just a few years ago, crazy lol. I'm gonna pry build my next PC also.
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